Delhiites travelling on the Lodhi Road route faced a hardship to reach their destination on Friday due to the traffic jams caused due to the protest held by Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi and his party leaders over the divestment of the power of the CBI Director Alok Verma.
Huge traffic was observed at Lodhi Road, CGO Complex, Bhishma Pitamah Marg, Sai Baba Chowk and near Dayal Singh College.
"The traffic was affected but it was for a short period. Lodhi road and Bhishma Pitamah Marg road has been opened later", said Alok Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic).
The protest as held by the Congress workers led by their president Rahul Gandhi including Ashok Gehlot, Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora, Veerappa Moily and
Anand Sharma took a rally from Dayal Singh College on Lodhi Road to the CBI headquarters about a kilometre away, has termed the move against Verma "illegal and unconstitutional".